January Jumpstart calendar: New year, new you

Comments: 0 - Date: December 31st, 2007 - Categories: Health_Fitness

Make 2008 the year you finally shape up. Throughout January, muster your motivation with our daily tips.Make 2008 the year you finally shape up. Throughout January, muster your motivation with our daily tips.


Sleep disruptions may increase diabetes risk

Comments: 0 - Date: December 31st, 2007 - Categories: Health_Fitness

Disrupting sleep damages the body’s ability to regulate blood sugar levels, potentially raising the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

Hospitals take a shine to silver, copper

Comments: 0 - Date: December 31st, 2007 - Categories: Health_Fitness

Some intensive-care units in the U.S. are about to get copper fittings as part of a project to test if drug-resistant bacteria survive better on hospitals' ubiquitous stainless steel than on copper.

Battling germs by busting up their gangs

Comments: 0 - Date: December 31st, 2007 - Categories: Health_Fitness

Hydroxyaratite disc act as tooth surogates to study how to block strep germs from forming dental plaque at Dr. Hyun Koo's lab at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, N.Y., Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007. Think of germs as gangsters. One thug lurking on a corner you might outrun, but a dozen swaggering down the street? Yikes. Bacteria make their own gangs, clustering quietly in the body until there's a large enough group to begin an attack. This is the next frontier in fighting drug-resistant superbugs. Instead of trying to directly kill germs, the new goal is to disable bacteria's ability to sicken in the first place _ by busting up the germ gangs. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)Bacteria make their own gangs, clustering quietly in the body until there's a large enough group to begin an attack. This is the next frontier in fighting drug-resistant superbugs.


2008: A year already worth forgetting

Comments: 0 - Date: December 31st, 2007 - Categories: Health_Fitness

(FILES) A file photo dated 28 April 2007 shows an Egyptian worker cleaning a chicken farm near Jamasa city, 170 kms north of Cairo. An Egyptian woman died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu 31 December 2007, the health ministry said, the third such death in less than a week as officials and experts warned against the relaxation of precautions. AFP PHOTO/KHALED DESOUKI (Photo credit should read KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)Bioethicist Art Caplan stands ready to foretell what big  stories await in '08.  Be warned: He's bearing bad news about stem cell research, HIV vaccines and the possibility of a bird flu pandemic.


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